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So Saturday night around 10:30 I got out of the shower and noticed a strange noise. It was almost like firecrackers. So I walk out into the hallway to find the stairway to the attic filled with smoke. Turns out we had a chimney fire which caused the pipe from our woodstove to get so hot it caused the items in close proximity to ignite. Luckily I was awake and was able to get everyone out safely. Also very lucky that it was contained to the third floor. Unfortunately we lost alot of stuff we had stored up there but they are only things. I am so grateful that the rest of my family is safe.



It got so hot the paint ran!


Now for the PSA part of the post. KEEP YOUR CHIMNEY CLEAN!

PS. Does anybody know how to get the smell of burning plastic out?

Richard

I don't think the bar can be raised much higher than this! Just amazing!

Richard

Merry Christmas everybody!

Richard

Big hitter the lama.

Man the triple play looks sweet. To be able to play vsti's without having to learn to play keyboards.

Richard

The last one ended two days ago so it may be the first week of January for another. But you know how that works as soon as you order a new coupon code pops up.

Richard

Congrats Brian!
I know if it wasn't for you I probably wouldn't have given pedal building a second look. And I am pretty sure I am not the only one.
You have created such a pleasant community in those 10 years and I am proud to be a member.
Here's to another 10 years!!!

Richard

Rullywow has boards for the ic muff if you don't want to wait.

Richard

Ok so mine came in today and ended up with a couple packs of strings, a leather strap, a keychain, mad stickers, and some cool pick samples. Definitely worth the 15 bucks.

Richard

Sorry to hear about the accident Tim. Sending prayers and good vibes your way.

Richard

No Rebel's! Saw this a few weeks ago definitely way better than the original.

Richard

Its all good Greg! I have seen a few jams with the label Avant-garde so chances are you would fit right in Plus lately I have found myself playing things that barely resemble music as well.

Whats up everybody?
I was just wondering if any of you were on jam kazam. It's a program that lets you jam with people over the internet.

Anyway I thought it would be cool to bring it to everyones attention if they haven't heard of it.
Maybe get a forum jam group going.

I have no affiliation, just figured it would be cool to play some music with you guys.

You beat me to it.

That's amazing Tim! The single color wiring would have driven me to brink of madness! Killer job man.

Richard

I certainly understand, I went through the same thing... but when all is said and done, just the learning curve of Eagle was hefty enough to warrant the trouble to get Diptrace on Windows. That doesn't even include developing a workflow within Eagle. I'd say it's far less trouble to get the Windows version of Diptrace. Once it's installed and you've got your workflow going in Diptrace (which to me is more efficient) it's kind of a no-brainer for me. YMMV.

If I was an employed EE with time to burn on complex and profitable projects, sure, I'd use Eagle. It's the industry "standard".

For making dirt simple projects like our little guitar pedals, playing around, having fun, etc... Diptrace wins without question.




Yeah I hear ya. When I first downloaded eagle I sat there scratching my head going "uhhhh" but after watching Jacob's tutorial videos I feel quite comfortable creating double sided through hole layouts. Plus the fact that uploading to oshpark is as simple as uploading the .brd instead of exporting gerbers. The size restraint is the only reason I was looking at diptrace. I was working on an order switching board for a multi in a 1590dd using dip switches and board mounted 3pdts but I can't make the board wide enough in eagle.

Richard

Anybody on OSX have diptrace working? Last time I tried to check it out it would only let me open the part editor and nothing else.

On my old Mac I was having problems too. I don't recommend it. I installed Parallels 7, a windows virtual machine, then installed the windows version of Diptrace. Basically it just runs Windows like an app, it ran much better. Eventually I installed a full Windows 7 partition on the Mac through Bootcamp. Ran excellent.

It really is a shame the Mac version is buggy. It turned me off at first, but it's not hard to install a virtual machine or go bootcamp. I did both, both worked fine.

Yeah I have an XP partition on my Mac but I was hoping I could get the Mac version to work. Oh well.

Richard